Nevada County picayune., 1887-03-23
WASHINGTON TOPICS.
Weekly Budget of News From the
 National Capital.
fFrom our Special Correspondent


 WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 20, 1887.
 Referring to the Interstate Commerce act, for which the Pres ident is now considering the ap- pointment of five commissioners, close adviser of the President has said .hat fears are entertained that but few good results will ob- tain from the operations of the bill. and that eventually the effort to control interstate commerce, under similar provisions as those enacted in the present law, may have to be abandoned. Available men to whom the commissions might be rendered are reluctant to accept in view of the possibility of endless confusion and litigation with railroads in the practical en- forcements of the requirements of the bill. The matter of selecting the five good men is one of cOnsid- erable difficulty to the President. It is reported that the Civil Ser vice Commissioners, who are keen ly sensitive to any interference with their high prerOgativea, will make complaint that certain De- partments have violated the stat ute in the appointment of clerks without the examination prescrib ed by law. It is said that they have received frequent complaints that men have been appointed to the classified service, who have been passed in by the kitchen door and promoted to other positions in complete disregard of the Observan. ces required by the civil service law. A commotiOn is expected in the Departments when this bomb explodes, as it is said developments of the most unpleasant nature will be made. Commissioner Edger- ton, the President of the board, says that they will assert thelr le- gal authority, by demanding that every employe who has secured his position through violation of the law; be removed. He says that since the law passed in 1883, large number of clerks and of. fcials have been given positions, in the most fragrant evasion of the law, and that they propose to pro tect the law, and their own of fcial dignity by an investigation and exposure of the whole matter. The many frienes of Representa- tive Randall are pleased that the reported re.districting of the Con gressional districts in Philadelphia, by which he was to be left at home has been abandoned The arrange ment adopted leaves Mir. Randalfs district with Il Democratic majOri- ty of 35OO.
 The reported resignation Of Sec retary Endicott, as result of an unpleasantness between himself and Surgeon General Moore, is denied at the White House, while the circumstances upon which the report was based are admitted as true. It seems that the recent ap- pointment of Surgeon General of the Army was made in opposition I to the recommendations of the 1 Army. After the confirmation of Moore, a conflict of authority arose between him and the Secretary in relation to the filling of certain positions in the Surgeon Generals office, and the latter laid the mat. ter before the president in the na ture of complaint, but not with the result, as was report ed, of caus- ing the Secretary's resignation.
 A nunbtr of visiting railroad men who have been in this city during the week. express the 0pin- ion that the Interstate Commerce law will have no effect on the rates already announced by rail ! roads all over the country for transportation to Washington to attend tue great military carnival. and that these rates will be ad- herred to The national drill at Washington Is booming and prom. ises to be the greatest military ] event since the war. A. s. Y.